Sparkly Things

I’ve been sitting in my chair too long today. Really, I’ve been here too long for the past week. I need my 3 day weekend. I’m owed 59 minutes from the other day, I think I’m going to take them now. Before I go, some instructions.

1. Hey sis and friends, add ari_griffin to your friends lists. She is mega kewl.

2. Happy b-day to the sister. Her birthday is on the 9th. I’m not telling how old she will be, because some of you can do the math.

3. Enjoy yer weekends, I plan on enjoying mine with some sewing and movies and maybe some shopping and definitely some snuggling, both Wooby and feline.

4. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. (Not that I’d feel it, but…)

EDIT: Tag fixed, now go check her out, especially the sister. I think the kitties are reading my LJ. Winston sat on my head last night while I was sleeping and purred in my ear. Not bad snuggling for a cat who hid inside his kitty carrier when we first got him.

Mystic Theurge 33% Combativeness, 10% Sneakiness, 70% Intellect, 61% Spirituality

Brilliant and spiritual! You are a Mystic Theurge! Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you’re an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn’t. The Mystic Theurge is a combination of a cleric and a mage. They can cast both arcane and divine spells, and are good at both, making them pretty terrifying on the battlefield. They have more raw spellpower than just about any other class. You’re both intelligent and faithful, but not violent or deceitful. I guess that makes you a pretty good person.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 14% on Combativeness You scored higher than 0% on Sneakiness You scored higher than 46% on Intellect You scored higher than 82% on Spirituality

Link: The RPG Class Test written by MFlowers on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Sometimes someone else says it best:

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”

William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
English poet (1770 – 1850)

My favorite childhood vacation place was in the news today. And it was not good news, it was VERY bad news.

“Captain blames wakes for tour boat tragedy”
Link here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9569812/

20 or 21 people died. It’s so hard to put that idea together with my memories of the place. I can imagine all of the boats on the lake, though. It gets so busy on the weekend. The Ethan Allen is a big, relatively flat bottomed boat. I’d bet it is very top heavy.

I feel terrible for all of those people. I only have good memories of Lake George and I’m sorry that a lot of people will now associate it only with tragedy.

Hi to all.  Fun was had at the event.  I’m going through some existential angst due to mediocrity problems.  Nothing I can’t handle.  Visit my sister at her journal and distribute some luv.  She needs it right now.

We figured out how to set up our new/used period style tent last night. It’s tres cool with mucho modularity. It’s a pretty standard square top supported by one center pole and four corner poles, then you have the option of 1 putting in additional side poles to create a sideless pavillion, 2 putting in the walls, to create a square tent or 3 some combination of the two, one wall and some poles for a pavillion with a windbreak or use the second wall across the center for a half sized tent with a big “porch” area. The walls can also be rolled back to create a breeze.
I’m looking forward to using it and now we have to get/make appropriate tent gear to go with it.
Yay!

I’ve got this tickly cough. It’s scratchy and irritating. I hope it will calm down in time for Celtic Cattle Raids this weekend. I’m going to throw some cough syrup in the car just in case. We are hard at work at home packing and preparing. Should be fun! If we can only leave on time.

We had a busy weekend, with a big demo in Raeford on Saturday. One of my employees called me on Saturday morning to ask if I could get someone to work for her as she had fallen and hurt herself and was scheduled to work that day. I told her that she could contact someone to come in for her, but that I was unable to do so at that time. As it turns out she went in to work and the other person working that day said she looked like she had been beaten up (she hadn’t been beaten up, she fell, but apparently she looked very rough). I went in for her on Sunday. She finally went to the hospital on Monday morning.
I don’t know how much responsibility I have for covering peoples’ schedules when they are sick. During the week it’s not a problem, if someone is out sick, there are several other staff members to cover for them, but on the weekends with three or two people scheduled to work, when one person calls off, it creates a real problem. I thought about having a person on call for the weekends, but I think it will create the idea that people can call off on short notice and the on-call person will step in. I know some of my staff will abuse that.
I guess I’m just going to have to talk about it with the civilian personnel folks.

EDIT: As it turns out I am responsible for contacting a replacement in case of emergency, so the phone list is coming home to find a permanent spot.

I have a new favorite appliance. I went out and got a Bissel bagless vacuum cleaner with the Turbo-brush attachment. It’s not amusing like a Roomba, but boy is it efficient, it picked up two cupfulls of dust and cat hair in one room. It’s my new front line weapon in the war against the fleas.

Here’s my flea strategy:

I’m going to bug bomb the house and then go over it with the vacuum and get the fleas while they are stunned.

While the bug bombs are going off, we’ll have the cats on the porch and hit them with the flea killer.

Before the cats are allowed back in the house, I’ve got flea collars for them. They’ll be collared and the collars will be changed once a month.

God I hate fleas. Little bloodsuckers.

We’re shipping out 720 boxes of books from our library stockpile to various places around the South and East in support of the folks who are staying in shelters after Hurricane Katrina. The FedEx people are here today to pick up the boxes. Then I have to go out and do some errands for work.

Tonight is the SCA meeting, this weekend we have a demo at the Hoke County Turkey festival.

Just trying to keep up.

Hope all the friends and family are well!